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Google announced today that their open source project hosting site, Google Code, is to close. The site has disabled the creation of new projects, will turn read-only on 24 August 2015, and will close on 25 January 2016. In the announcement.

Google's Director of Open Source Chris DiBona cited the move of projects away from Google Code to other services such as GitHub and BitBucket - indeed Google itself has moved thousands of its projects to GitHub.

This is a guide on using Git and GitHub within a VMWare virtual machine (VM) which, for whatever reason (e.g. organisational security policies), cannot be connected to a network.

Why write this guide?

This guide arose from our open call collaboration with the Distance project at the University of St. Andrews. They use Windows XP virtual machines for developing their Distance for Windows software. Their interface code, implemented in Visual Basic, is not held under revision control and institutional security policies…

Much research software starts its life thanks to a research grant. But what happens when your code proves useful and you want to extend it or ruggedise it for release to the wider community? Research grants generally can't help because they focus on solving research problems, not improving code. Who should you turn to?

We're putting together a list of funders and funding calls who can help with the costs of improving code. This list is not comprehensive, but we'd like it to be. If you know of other sources for this type of funding, please let us know and we'll add them to the list…